Re: Complex script editor wish list

>BTW one of my scripts is distinguished by being right-to-left
>when written by left-handed scribes but vertical when written
>by right-handed scribes.  The pen angle would differ for the
>two.
Are you left handed?  (I am.)  The way that left-handed caligraphers using
Roman characters have typically gotten around the problem is to turn the
page on its side so that they write top to bottom and in columns (rows)
that go from right to left.  When it's done and the page is turned upright,
the characters move in the same direction as a right-handed scribe's.  But
I do know that the pens are cut at the opposite angle for a left-handed
scribe, and I don't know whether that has a subtle effect on the shape of
the letters or not.

Isidora

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